With your group, use your notes to have a 7 minute Socratic discussion (without the outside circle). Use a phone or video camera to record your group. When you finish, watch the video. Discuss with your group the positive and negative aspects of your performance. Did you refer to the text? Did you build off each others' ideas? Were there long awkward silent periods? Was everyone well prepared? Complete the grading rubric. Turn this in, along with your prep notes handout.
Use the graphic organizer to begin planning your essay on The Tao of Pooh. Don't worry about not finishing today. Take it with you and start thinking about your thesis. We will have some class time to finish tomorrow.
Today's Learning Objective
Students will engage in discussion to evaluate and analyze texts and to develop ideas for reflective writing.RI.10.1, RI.10.2, RI.10.3 RI.10.6, W.10.5, SL.10.1
Bell Work: Participial Phrases
Complete practice 2 and 3.Lit Circles
With your group, use your notes to have a 7 minute Socratic discussion (without the outside circle). Use a phone or video camera to record your group. When you finish, watch the video. Discuss with your group the positive and negative aspects of your performance. Did you refer to the text? Did you build off each others' ideas? Were there long awkward silent periods? Was everyone well prepared? Complete the grading rubric. Turn this in, along with your prep notes handout.Complete Study Questions
Organizing an Argument
Let's look at some possible outlines. (You were given these for your Julius Caesar essay.)What would work best for our prompt?
Here are some possible graphic organizers you could use!
Use the graphic organizer to begin planning your essay on The Tao of Pooh. Don't worry about not finishing today. Take it with you and start thinking about your thesis. We will have some class time to finish tomorrow.
Homework
Finish the study questions for The Tao of Pooh.